The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 440

Although the infantry of the Daming Navy was under the bombardment of the enemy, in order to keep the infantry line in order, they could not advance too fast.

The whistling iron ball passed across the long and narrow line of the Ming army, but it failed to make any soldier hesitate.

More than half of the naval infantry are veterans of the Dragon Guard who are familiar with water, and they have engraved iron-like discipline deep in their souls.Even though the comrades beside them died in the artillery fire, they just silently stepped forward to fill the vacant positions, and the whole line always kept the same speed approaching Jianlu.

Finally, the infantry line reached a position about 70 paces away from the enemy.In the short distance of less than one mile just now, the Ming army had already paid nearly [-] casualties.

Following the commander's order to aim, all the soldiers raised their flintlocks in unison, and pointed their bayonets directly in the direction of Beijing.

Immediately afterwards, they roared again, "Let go!"

Immediately, the anger in the chests of more than 700 soldiers turned into flames from the muzzles, and they fired dense lead bullets at Jianlu.

The captive soldiers in the front team were just stunned by the fearless momentum of the Ming army, and felt that they were a group of iron men who were not afraid of life and death.It wasn't until the loud sound of gunshots from the opposite side that they woke up, but then a "giant net" of lead bullets suddenly enveloped them.

The entire Jianlu camp was filled with blood and rain. The first round of salvos knocked nearly a hundred soldiers in the front row to the ground, and all the Jianlu gunners who were slower to evacuate before the formation were killed.Immediately afterwards, wailing sounded from all over the place.

It was only at this time that the Qing army was urged by the officers to shoot towards the opposite side with their bows and blunderbuss, but at this distance, it was difficult for their weapons to effectively kill the Ming soldiers who were all equipped with refined cotton armor.

Soon, the infantry line of the Ming army raised the firecrackers again. At this time, Jianlu's side had not yet completed half of the loading work.

The rapid and intensive flintlock shooting soon showed its effect. After only three or four salvos, the front team of the Qing army composed of green battalion soldiers began to retreat.

"General, there are Jianlu cavalry on the left flank."

Liu Guoxuan was concentrating on commanding the battle when he heard the adjutant beside him warn him.He hurriedly looked to the south, and couldn't help frowning. Just less than two miles away, hundreds of cavalry were forming formations, and they should be rushing over soon.

"We must break through the middle as soon as possible, otherwise we will be easily flanked." He glanced at the Jianlu front team, which was already a little loose, and said decisively, "Send the order, the line moves forward [-] steps!"

"Yes!"

The Jianlu front team suffered a great loss in the confrontation, and the shooting of the entire army formation had begun to appear chaotic, but at this moment, the sound of the Ming army's guns stopped.

All the captive soldiers felt relieved, and just about to take a breath, they heard the terrible "aiming" call sounded again. When they looked up, the Ming army had already approached within fifty paces.

After a round of salvo, Liu Guoxuan ignored the howling ghosts and wolves in Jianlu's formation, and immediately ordered "quick reload", and then ordered "[-] steps forward to aim".

This time, the gun was fired almost on the nose of the Qing army. The close range of twenty steps made the power of the six-coin gun fully exerted. All killed.

Then Liu Guoxuan shouted loudly, "Ready the bayonet!"

"rush!"

Immediately, a thunderous roar erupted from the Ming army's formation, "Kill!" Then, like a shocking wave, it rushed towards the former Jianlu army.

Lou Guangxian was almost dumbfounded - this thousand Ming army was fighting with his own 3000 troops, but they dared to take the initiative to attack, but at this time they obviously had the advantage of firecrackers, but they wanted to rush forward to fight!
What kind of play is this? !But then he was overjoyed again, just now when he saw that the former army suffered from the gunfire, he had already planned to make people come close to fight, but he did not expect that the Ming army would charge forward by himself, which is quite easy.

Even though the naval infantry fought hand-to-hand with bayonets, they still basically maintained a neat horizontal formation.Under the command of the management team, the seven soldiers of each team stabbed forward in unison, immediately making the captive troops fighting on their own feel overwhelmed.

In addition, during the confrontation just now, the Jianlu knife and spearmen suffered too much losses. After two or three rounds, they could only fight with the Ming army's bayonets with the bowmen in the back row.

Although Jianlu's long-range troops were also equipped with single swords, their hand-to-hand combat capabilities were not worth mentioning. After more than a hundred people were stabbed by bayonets, they collapsed.

Liu Guoxuan glanced at the Jianlu cavalry in the distance, and ordered [-] infantry and sailors to prepare to flank the enemy, while the remaining [-] infantry continued to charge forward.

How could Lou Guang have imagined that his former team would lose so quickly.By the time he reacted, the rout soldiers had almost fled to his side, and dozens of steps away there were bursts of firecrackers, and it was obvious that the Ming army was following them without looking.

Batu Hai was even more surprised, and hurriedly ordered the Ba Yala guards to gather the deserters.But these Jianlu bowmen were really scared out of their wits by the "iron man" chasing after them, and even Ba Yala, who was usually aloof, didn't care about them, and they still ran desperately to the west.

On the contrary, the hundreds of guards of Batu Hai were overwhelmed by the turbulent crowd, and when the rout finally left, they were about to get up when they saw bayonets covered in blood.

The pity for these elites of the Qing Dynasty did not even have the opportunity to display their superb martial arts, and most of them lay on the ground and were stabbed to death by bayonets.

After all, Lou Guangxian had to go through some storms, and when he saw the situation, he wanted to drag Batuhai to escape.But the latter pulled out his saber and shouted: "I am Beile Batuhai of Daqinggu Mountain, all of you have the guts to follow me...uh..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he was knocked off his horse by several deserters, and he fell into a mess.Lou Guang got off his horse to help him first, but he heard someone not far away shouting: "Aim!"

Seeing that his central army's battle formation had collapsed in a short while, Li Xian was in a hurry and couldn't care about the formation, so he rushed to the reinforcements immediately.

After he had charged nearly a mile, the Ming army suddenly burst into artillery fire, several iron balls slammed across his cavalry group, and even a dozen people fell off their horses immediately.

"The Ming army actually had cannons?!"

How could he have thought that Liu Guoxuan placed them on the flanks at the beginning because the range of these three-pound guns was not as good as that of the Qing army's cannons, but he just caught up with them.

After rushing forward for a while, the tiger crouching guns of the Ming army also began to spew flames. These small guns were actually very limited in terms of damage to the cavalry, but the huge roar made many war horses startle.

Then Li Xian saw a hollow square formation consisting of three to four hundred people, and all the soldiers in the formation had their muzzles and daggers facing outward.

This formation seemed to be extremely thin, so he rushed forward without hesitation, but unexpectedly found that the mount did not obey the command at all, and turned around and turned west.

When the cavalry under him were divided into two by the hollow phalanx, and they bypassed both sides of the phalanx, dozens of sparking iron balls were thrown into the cavalry.

(End of this chapter)